VOICED : Museo en cementerio de esclavos en crisis por recortes

In 1996, Merced Guimaraes discovered bones under her house in Rio de Janeiro, initially thought to be evidence of a crime. These were actually remains from the largest slave cemetery in the Americas. In 2005, she opened the Institute of the New Blacks, which attracted 70,000 visitors by last year. The site serves as a living testimony to crimes against humanity, referred to as the 'black holocaust' of Rio. The mass grave, used from 1769 to 1830, faces closure due to budget cuts. Guimaraes argues that the issue extends beyond finances, as Brazilians avoid confronting their history of slavery. Brazil, with the largest black population outside Africa, received ten times more slaves than the U.S. Guimaraes refuses to charge visitors to view this historical crime.

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